2024 Final Event Judges

Andrew Harlan

Director of Engineering

Myomo

Andrew Harlan is the Director of Engineering at Myomo, an MIT spinout that develops powered upper-extremity exoskeletons to help those suffering paralysis due to stroke, spinal cord injury, and other neurological conditions. After graduating from MIT with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Andrew has played a critical technical role in developing robots used in search and rescue, IED disposal, warehouses, the home, and hospitals at multiple Boston-area companies. At Myomo he leads the hardware and software development of assistive technologies that blend robotics, UX, embedded biosensing, and biomechanics to enable the wearer to regain lost function and live more independently. 

Lei Hamilton, PhD

Technical Staff, AI Technology

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

PhD in Bioengineering from Georgia Tech, BS and MS in Electrical Engineering.

Worked about half a year in MIT Lincoln Lab, previously worked 3 years in industry and 6 years in Draper Lab, on AI such as deep learning, or traditional machine learning, mostly focused in computer vision in various applications ranging from biomedical to vision-aid navigation, as well as time-series data.

Her recent focus is on reliable, robust AI test and evaluation and trustworthy large language models.

Bethany Lettiere, PhD

Technical Staff, Fabrication Engineering

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Bethany Rose Lettiere is a Technical Staff member at MIT Lincoln Lab. They earned their Masters and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT focusing on carbon nanotube based batteries and metal additive manufacturing, respectively. They like tinkering and improving things and they always try to find the fun in engineering. In their free time, they enjoy playing board games, D&D, and Pokémon Go. 

Steve Levine, PhD

Principal Software Engineer

Medtronic

https://alum.mit.edu/www/sjlevine/

Steve Levine is a principal software engineer at Medtronic where he works on surgical robotics algorithms. His focus has been on the kinematics algorithms that control how the surgical robots move safety during procedures in response to surgeons' commands. Prior to joining Medtronic, he completed his Ph.D at MIT in Computer Science in the field of AI and robotics in the MERS group (Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems) in MIT’s CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). Steve also completed his B.S. and M.Eng degrees at MIT, where he enjoyed taking classes in medical device design and assistive technology -- including PPAT and participating in the ATHack hackathon! He believes that one of the most influential, inspirational, and positive applications of technology is in pursuit of improving the health and quality of life of others.